Mad Max, Star Wars, The Revenant – 2015 was the year filmmakers, even working with the largest of budgets, harnessed the use of on-location shoots and practical effects to convey big stories. To kick off 2016, the stop motion animated Anomalisa moves to even humbler ground, painstakingly capturing the movements of miniature, life-like puppets to tell a story much smaller and more personal in scale.